Bodies of Water and Landforms

1. Anyone passing through our solar system would be attracted to the blue planet. They would know that the blue color indicated _______ on Earth.

2. The ocean is an interconnected body of _______ water that covers about 71 percent of our planet.

• fresh
• salt
• saline
• brackish

3. The waters near Antarctica are sometimes called the _______ Ocean.

4. __________ act like rivers flowing through the ocean.

• waves
• currents
• flows
• floods

5. The _____________ is the continous circulation of water between the atmosphere, the oceans, and the earth.

• The hydrologic cycle
• The circle of hydrology
• The hydrologic circle
• The hydrology span

6. Evaporation from the land pumps 17,000 cubic miles of water into the atmosphere every year. The water evaporates from the land itself and from __________.

7. A total of approximately 119,000 cubic miles of water evaporates into the atmosphere every year and returns as _________—rain or snow.

8. Rivers and streams connect into drainage systems that work like the branches of a tree, with smaller branches. Geographers call an area drained by a major river and its ___________ a drainage basin.

• rapids
• canals
• tributaries
• flows

9. The water held in the pores of rock is called ground water. The level at which the rock is saturated marks the rim of the _______.

• water sink
• water basin
• water front
• water table

11. _________ are naturally formed features on the surface of the earth.

• natural objects
• horizons
• relief spaces
• landforms